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Craft Tutorials | Crafts for Kids | Easy Crafts for Kids | Paper Bag Pirate Puppet

Paper Bag Pirate Puppet

Author by Amanda Davis on November 30, 2014 Updated on January 15, 2019

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Arrgggh, swab the deck matey, and hoist the anchor! It’s time to make this cute paper bag pirate puppet and create your very own puppet show. Make this ornery little sailor and create a few more seamen (or even a parrot) to round out the crew!

Paper Bag Pirate Puppet by Amanda Formaro, Crafts by Amanda

 

For added fun, glue two construction paper arms to the side of your pirate puppet and connect hands to a long dowel. Carefully move dowel up and down to control arms. To make a happy pirate puppet, glue the eyebrow in an upward slant instead of downward. If you prefer, you can replace the felt in this project with construction paper.

You will need THIS PATTERN for this project. 

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Paper Bag Pirate Puppet

Supplies

  • Paper lunch bag
  • Acrylic paint: white red, flesh
  • Felt: dark brown black, white, peach, goldenrod, light blue
  • Bandana
  • Paintbrush
  • Scissors
  • White craft glue
  • Pattern

Instructions

  • Lay lunch bag on work surface, bottom flap facing up.
  • Paint the bottom flap with flesh colored paint.
  • Paint the rest of the bag white.
  • When white paint has dried, paint red stripes across the front and back of the bag.
  • Use pattern to cut out felt pieces while your paint dries. You will need black for the eye patch and the pupil. You will also need to cut a thin strip of black felt for the band on the eye patch, about 8” long. Use brown felt for the moustache, beard and ponytail, goldenrod for (2) the earrings, white for the eye and peach for the nose. You will also need to cut a small ponytail holder (see ponytail pattern) out of light blue felt.
  • Glue ponytail to the back of the bag first. Position the top of the hair about an inch below the top of the bag. Glue ponytail holder on to ponytail.
  • Turn bag over so that the bottom flap is facing up. Lift the flap gently and glue the beard just under he flap.
  • Glue moustache on next, overlap the bottom of the moustache over the bottom of the flap.
  • You will need to cut ¼ out of the bandana. To do this, fold the bandana in half, and then fold in half again. You should have a square (4 squares folded together). Cut out one of the squares, set aside the remaining ¾ of the bandana for another project.
  • Place the bandana square flat in front of you. The finished corner should be pointing downward. Fold the opposite corner (unfinished, cut corner) down to the finished corner, creating a triangle.
  • Hold the bandana in place with your fingers and turn the bag and bandana over. Take the two loose ends of the triangle and tie them together, creating a do-rag. Glue do-rag in place, front and back.
  • Flip the bag over so the pirate is face up. Glue the eye, pupil and eyebrow above the moustache; glue the eye patch on the other side.
  • Glue the long thin black strip from one corner of the patch, around the head and back of the bag, to the other corner.
  • Glue the earrings just inside the bottom flap of the bag (face), one on each side.

I originally made this project for Kaboose, which was then bought out by Spoonful. Spoonful has since closed and the instructions were taken down. I am putting the instructions here until such time that Spoonful projects are redirected to a new home. At that time I will remove the instructions and link directly to the project on their site. 

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Amanda Davis
Amanda Davis is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years.
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  1. Quirky Homemaker says

    May 20, 2017 at 9:39 am

    Aaaargh! I love your Pirate stuff! I’ve featured your cardboard tube pirate at Kids Activities Blog in this roundup:
    http://www.heartfeltbalancehandmadelife.com/2017/05/18-colorful-fun-cardboard-tube-crafts.html

    Thanks for the cute inspirations!

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    • Amanda Formaro says

      May 22, 2017 at 11:45 am

      Thanks for the feature! :)

      Reply
  2. mina says

    August 16, 2015 at 1:44 am

    thanks a lot

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